In 1932, Arbit Blatas opened the first private gallery in the Baltics in Kaunas. On May 11, the exhibition of the world-recognised Litvak artist will be opened in his hometown.
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A preventive claim was filed in the District Court of Vilnius City to prevent reconstruction works on the territory of the Concert and Sports Palace that would desecrate the Old Šnipiškės (Piramont) Jewish Cemetery and the human remains surrounding the sports palace in all directions, and mixed into...
Russian billionaire and owner of London Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich visited Vilnius this week, the 15min.lt news website reports on Thursday.
Internationally-renowned Litvak painter Samuel Bak, back in Vilnius for the opening of his museum, on Wednesday expressed his gratitude to residents of his hometown who helped him survive the Holocaust.
Lietuva netolimoje ateityje gali pasiekti labai daug, jei vadovausis tinkamu pavyzdžiu. Apie tai, kokias galimybes mato čia pasakojo Vilniuje viešėjęs Lietuvos žydo palikuonis, Jungtinės Karalystės Karališkosios menų draugijos už pasiekimus įvertintas muzikos ir mobiliųjų pramogų industrijos verslin...
Valstybinį Vilniaus Gaono žydų muziejų (VVGŽM) suglumino praėjusią savaitę spaudoje pasirodžiusi informacija apie valdžios institucijų ketinimus sostinėje steigti dar vieną žydų muziejų, užuot užtikrinus paramą jau vykdomiems projektams, rašoma VVGŽM pranešime.
As a Cape Town born Jew, my life has come full circle. Although I was born after his death, my zeida, Rabbi Shimon Ze’ev Aysenberg, played an indelible influence in my life. My father, Isaac Eisenberg, born in a stable in Mogilov, Belarus, in 1922, a medical doctor and writer, spent his life interpr...
Lithuania on Friday is paying last respects to late Israeli President Shimon Peres.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė yesterday awarded the Life Saving Cross to forty-six Lithuanian citizens who risked danger to save Jews from probable death in Nazi-occupied Lithuania during World War II. Of the forty-six, only two were still alive to receive the award in person.
Kaunas —Saturday marked the opening of a weeklong public program at the New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas, Lithuania, commemorating of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Organised by the International Centre for Litvak Photography, or IC4LP, the program is th...
August 29th, 2016, has become truly important day for Lithuanian people, for Israel, and for all of us who does not know the past term for Holocaust. On that day, a small Lithuanian town of Moletai has become a scene of tangible and penetrating lesson on the Shoah. It was a rare event - unpretending...
Britain's new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has ancestral ties with Lithuania. The controversial politician's great grandfather was a Litvak born in Žemaičių Kalvarija, the famous American palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe (Loew). To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking her...
The works of Vilnius-born Jewish painter David Labkovski that were recently presented in Los Angeles could serve as a good introduction to teaching about the Holocaust in US schools, researchers say.
The Rokiškis Regional Museum and the US-based non-profit organization Remembering Litvaks, have established a new research award, the volunteer Private Ruvin Bun award, to encourage a better understanding of the contribution of ethnic minorities to the founding of an independent Lithuanian state.
Lithuanian MPs have submitted a bill on reinstating citizenship for Jews who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their descendants. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Lithuania gave the world many stellar personalities that have and continue to entertain, impress and influence the world. Here is our selection of ten global stars you may not have suspected have Lithuanian blood.
Following on from Hollywood star Sean Penn, it now appears that US president Barack Obama also has family links to Lithuania.
The famous US actor Sean Penn, two-time Oscar winner, appears to have Lithuanian roots with his Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) grandfather born in Lithuania in 1879.
As the Migration Department and courts have been rejecting citizenship applications from Jews of Lithuanian origin, lawmakers are determined to amend the Law on Citizenship.
